Todd-Carriker : Birds of Santa Marta Region, Colombia. 447 



The discovery of a species of Hemispingus in the mountains of 

 the Santa Marta region, to which apparently it is confined, is of more 

 than passing interest. It is a very distinct form, differing from all 

 the other known species of this group in having a broad vertical as 

 well as superciliary stripe. H. atr opticus (Lafresnaye) is perhaps 

 its nearest relative. 



The first birds of this species, including the type and an example 

 in juvenal plumage, were taken on the very crest of the San Lorenzo, 

 east of the Cerro Quemado, at about 8,600 feet, on July 18 and 28, 

 191 1. Four birds in all were shot, which were the only ones seen 

 at that point, in the thick shrubbery growing on the crest of the moun- 

 tain. One female was taken at Macotama in the shrubbery along a 

 small creek on April 6, 1914, and later four more individuals were se- 

 cured at about 9,000 feet, along the edge of the timber-line above that 

 point. It is evidently a rare bird, and one entirely overlooked by 

 previous collectors in this region. In its faunal distribution it would 

 appear to belong to the Temperate Zone. 



414. Geothlypis trichas trichas (Linnaeus). 

 One specimen : Paramo de Chiruqua. 



A single individual was taken on April 21, 191 4, on the shores of 

 Lake Macotama, at an altitude of 15,000 feet, in a clump of low shrub- 

 bery growing out of a mass of great boulders, and was the only one 

 seen. This astonishing record extends the range of the species to the 

 South American continent, it not having been known heretofore to 

 the southward of Chiriqui (Salvin and Godman, Biologia Central i- 

 Amcricana, Aves, I, 1881, 150), and being very rare even in Costa 

 Rica (Cherrie, Auk, IX, 1892, 21). The late date of its occurrence, 

 and the high altitude at which it was found, are no less remarkable. 

 The specimen is an adult male bird, showing moult going on about the 

 head. 



415. Seiurus noveboracensis noveboracensis (Gmelin). 



Seiurus noveboracensis Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1880, 117 (Minca). — Bangs, 

 Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XIII, 1899, 105 (La Concepcion and Chirua). 

 — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 177 (Bonda and Cienaga). 

 — Allen, Auk, XVII, 1900, 366 (Bonda and Cienaga; Salvin and Godman's 

 and Bangs' records), — Cooke, Bull. Biol. Survey, No. 18, 1904, 102 (Santa 

 Marta localities and references). 



Siurus ncevius Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., X, 1885, 652 (Minca). 

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